10 papers
Group Alignment-Induced Sycophancy: A Two-Sided Evaluation of Steerable Pluralistic Alignment
Haokai Zhao, Yunze Xiao, Weihao Xuan +3
Group alignment adapts a language model to a demographic group to produce responses that reflect the group's opinions, values, and preferences. Sycophancy, a well-documented by-pro…
AnyMo: Geometry-Aware Setup-Agnostic Modeling of Human Motion in the Wild
Baiyu Chen, Zechen Li, Wilson Wongso +5
As wearable and mobile devices become increasingly embedded in daily life, they offer a practical way to continuously sense human motion in the wild. But inertial signals are highl…
From Fixed to Flexible: Shaping AI Personality in Context-Sensitive Interaction
Shakyani Jayasiriwardene, Hongyu Zhou, Weiwei Jiang +7
Conversational agents are increasingly expected to adapt across contexts and evolve their personalities through interactions, yet most remain static once configured. We present an…
An LLM-Assisted Toolkit for Inspectable Multimodal Emotion Data Annotation
Zheyuan Kuang, Weiwei Jiang, Nicholas Koemel +5
Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) increasingly depends on fine grained, evidence grounded annotations, yet inspection and label construction are hard to scale when cues are dyna…
Understanding the Effects of Interaction on Emotional Experiences in VR
Zheyuan Kuang, Tinghui Li, Weiwei Jiang +5
Virtual reality has been effectively used for eliciting emotions, yet most research focuses on the intensity of affective responses rather than on how interaction influences those…
Robot-Wearable Conversation Hand-off for Navigation
Dániel Szabó, Aku Visuri, Benjamin Tag +1
Navigating large and complex indoor environments, such as universities, airports, and hospitals, can be cognitively demanding and requires attention and effort. While mobile applic…